July 2011
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William Burroughs was the person who broke the door down. When I read Burroughs,...
– Lou Reed
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He didn’t change that much … first there was a young guy sitting in front...
– William S. Burroughs on Jack Kerouac
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Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control...
– William S. Burroughs,The Soft Machine
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A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and...
– William S. Burroughs
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited...
– Jim Morrison
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i think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with...
– Bob Dylan
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… a tough young kid from the Lower East Side who rose like an angel over the...
– Jack Kerouac
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They, that unnamed “they,” they’ve knocked me down but I got...
– Gregory Corso
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the...
– Boris Vian
June 2011
125 posts
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The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation →
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One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what?...
– Charles Baudelaire